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May 19, 2021

Diaz-Carreras

Shannon

WSP USA hired water resources professionals Alex Shannon and Juan H. Diaz-Carreras, based in Seattle and Los Angeles. They will be leaders in aquatic management in their respective regions, responsible for providing water, wastewater and surface water solutions to customers and further building WSP’s water business. Shannon has a decade of experience developing water solutions for communities across the country. In his new role, he will continue to be a thought leader in economic modeling, risk analysis, decision science, financing strategies, and optimizing the implementation of utility capital improvement programs. Diaz-Carreras has experience in project management advising and working for a water district on restoration projects in the Florida Everglades. He campaigned for Congress with the US Army Corps of Engineers and consulted with Native Americans on sensitive issues. WSP USA is the US operating company of WSP, an engineering and service company.

Müller

Architect Mike Miller is retiring this month after 19 years as the builder and owner of the Bremerton-based architecture, interior and design firm Rice Fergus Miller. Miller has led the design of healthcare and senior facilities. He joined RFM from Seattle’s NBBJ architectural firm, where he was a leader in senior living and healthcare. Miller recognized that senior, healthcare, and hospitality design each serve similar core audiences. At RFM, he incorporated these practices into a studio called H3. His senior living projects at RFM have included Emerald Heights by Emerald Communities in Redmond, Heron’s Key in Gig Harbor, and Timber Ridge at Talus in Issaquah. His health work included St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, where he planned and designed projects. His other medical clients included Olympic Medical Center, Jefferson Healthcare, Virginia Mason, and CHI Franciscan. He was on the board of St. Michael for two years and on the board of trustees for 14 years and headed it for three years. He won the LeadingAge Washington honorary award in 2016 and was named Leader of the Year in 2006 by the Milgard School of Business at the University of Washington.

Schultz

Barkers

Coffman Engineers, a national multidisciplinary engineering firm, named Fred Barker and Trevor Schultz as principal owners in the Seattle office. Barker has more than 10 years of experience and is a civil engineer who has performed design and project management for commercial, federal, industrial, residential and renovation projects. He has worked with national retailers, large commercial customers, and large industrial customers across North America. Schultz has more than 13 years of experience in mechanical engineering with a focus on industrial plants and commercial buildings. He has a background in hydraulics, industrial ventilation, bulk handling, compressed air systems, pneumatic controls, dust collection, and commercial HVAC.

ZoomInfo, a go-to-market intelligence solutions company, announced that Chetna Mahajan has joined the company as Chief Information Officer. With nearly two decades of technology and operations experience, she will lead ZoomInfo’s information technology strategy. Mahajan will serve on ZoomInfo’s leadership team, reporting to Chris Hays, ZoomInfo’s Chief Operating Officer. Mahajan was most recently vice president of business systems and data analytics at Conga. Prior to Conga, Mahajan was the senior director of business systems, intelligent automation, and digital experience at Symantec, a cybersecurity software company. She has also held senior positions at Delta Dental, California, the information technology bureau for the Governor of Colorado, Boeing, and Sun Microsystems. ZoomInfo is headquartered in Vancouver.

Bellevue-based RocketReach, an intelligence platform used by sales, marketing and recruiting teams, has appointed Tom Hale to its board of directors. Hale is currently President of SurveyMonkey, a provider of customer experience, market research and survey feedback software solutions, where he is responsible for overseeing engineering, infrastructure, product marketing, user experience and growth. Before joining SurveyMonkey in 2016, he spent six years at HomeAway, an internet marketplace for vacation rentals, first as Chief Product Officer and then Chief Operating Officer. Hale currently serves on the boards of Cars.com and NoiseAware.

With support from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the 50th annual Northwest Folklife Festival will take place virtually on Memorial Day weekend May 28-31. The full schedule is now available. There are many ways to get involved in programming at this year’s virtual festival. Streaming channels such as 50 Years of Folklife, Folklife Premieres and The Roadhouse feature regional artists, while On-Demand and Family Fun channels provide access to performances at all times. New this year, the assembly room offers live workshops in an intimate virtual space. More information is available at http://www.nwfolklife.org/festival/home.

Lattice Semiconductor announced that the Lattice Sentry solution stack and Lattice SupplyGuard supply chain security service won the Global InfoSec Cutting Edge in Embedded Security Award 2021 from Cyber ​​Defense Magazine. Lattice’s Sentry solution stack is a combination of customizable embedded software, reference designs, IP and development tools to accelerate the implementation of secure systems that adhere to the NIST platform firmware resilience guidelines. The Lattice SupplyGuard service extends the system protection provided by the Sentry stack across the supply chain by providing factory-locked devices that are protected from attacks such as cloning and malware insertion. Lattice is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

May 18, 2021

Orquiola

In Los Angeles, PCL Construction promoted Cathy Orquiola to regional vice president, who now works with California to oversee operations in Seattle and Hawaii. Orquiola began her 26-year construction career as a project engineer and switched to senior project manager before moving to management. She returned to PCL in 2015 as Director of Corporate Development in Denver and was promoted to District Director of the California Buildings Los Angeles office in 2017. The following year she becomes Vice President. In her new position, Orquiola also became a board member of PCL.

Woodinville-based Synergy Contractors Group, a timber framing company, has expanded into prefabricated wall panels, stairs, and flooring systems. Synergy says the systems can be installed by third parties or as a turnkey package from Synergy. Synergy is a federal, federally recognized minority company founded by Joshua C. Schaaf, a member of the Mille Lacs Band from Ojibwe, Minnesota. Schaaf has more than 20 years of experience in joinery and specializes in the construction of types 3 and 5.

Chambers Bay Construction launched Chambers Bay Roofing, a new division of the general contractor based in University Place. A company press release said the decision was made after several years of observing poor quality roofing work in the Tacoma area with many roofers failing to assess the condition of a roof foundation. Mark Carter II is the founder and CEO of Chambers Bay Construction.

tribe

Sidney Tribe was elected a shareholder in the Carney Badley Spellman law firm in Seattle. Her practice consists primarily of civil actions in state and federal courts, which she has focused on for the past twelve years. She has handled more than 130 appeal cases, including more than 60 as a senior attorney. Prior to joining the private practice, Tribe was a clerk for the Honorable William Baker on Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals.

Seattle-based ExtraHop announced that Inc. Magazine has named ExtraHop on its annual list of the best places to work for the second year running. Inc. Magazine received thousands of applications and developed a list of 429 organizations that are improving corporate culture and employee experience, be it in the office or at home. Each nominated company participated in a third-party employee survey on topics such as trust, management effectiveness, and value, which Inc. Magazine then collected, analyzed, and reviewed to determine its 2021 award winners. ExtraHop is a cloud-native network discovery and response provider with 30 recently awarded industry awards including Forbes AI 50, Cybercrime Ransomware 25, and SC Media Security Innovator.

Amazon hires 75,000 people across its fulfillment and logistics network in the United States and Canada. Amazon recently announced pay increases for its fulfillment and transportation networks. These open roles offer an average starting salary of over $ 17 per hour, plus sign-up bonuses in many locations of up to $ 1,000. The hiring for the 75,000 rolls is already in progress. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/apply to learn more. Washington is one of the locations with the most open roles.

POSaBIT Systems has appointed Matthew Fowler as Chief Financial Officer of POSaBIT. As CFO, Fowler will be responsible for overseeing and managing finances, legal, human resources and operations. Fowler most recently served as senior vice president of finance and accounting at AuthenticID, where he led finance, accounting and reporting for a rapidly growing SaaS fraud prevention and identity verification platform. Previously, he was vice president of finance and reporting at Phytelligence and director and corporate controller of accounting and reporting at Rhapsody International, an international streaming music company. POSaBIT is a financial technology company that offers blockchain-enabled payment processing and point-of-sale systems for pure cash businesses.